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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-26Last update of repository: 15 March 2020Institut istorii material'noi kul'tury RAN (IIMK)Fotootdel Nauchnogo arkhiva [Photograph Division of Scientific Archive] Telephone: +7 812 571-67-78 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc... Opening hours: MWF 11:00–17:00Head of Scientific Archive: Mariia Vladimirovna Medvedeva Holdings Total: 64 fonds; over 1,200,000 units; 1853&mndash;1990s negatives—264,351 units; positives—351,996 units; films—8 units; personal papers—47 fonds The archive holds photographic collections (in separate fonds) from many of the prerevolutionary and Soviet institutions whose records are held in the Manuscript Archive described above, including those of the Imperial Archeological Commission (1890–1917), the Imperial Russian Archeology Society (1871–1925), the St. Petersburg Archeological Institute (1877–1923), the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, the N.Ia. Marr Institute of the History of Material Culture, and the Institute of Archeology (1892–1993). Photographs remain from various archeological expeditions from 1893 to 1914, led by N.K. Roerich (Rerikh), V.V. Khvoiko, N.E. Makarenko, and A.A. Spitsyn, with pictures of excavations and finds, along with illustrations for publications. There are photographs depicting archeological excavations and relics of the Russian Empire, the USSR, and many foreign countries from the paleolithic period to the nineteenth century. There are photographs of monuments of early Rus' architecture and its restoration; ethnography and anthropology in the Volga region, the Crimea, Turkmenia, Siberia, and the Amur basin; early Rus' buried treasure; applied art and architecture in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, and Western Ukraine; Byzantine miniatures, and Russian paleography and heraldry, along with photographs for the archeological and ethnological sections of the “Turkestan Album” of A.L. Kun (Kuhn) (1871–1872). After revolution photographic collections were received from the Leningrad State Museum Fond (1873–1928), the Leningrad Division of the Preservation of Monuments of the Committee for the Arts (1938), the Committee for Popularization of Artistic Editions (1890–1917), the Libraries of the Winter and Marble Palaces (1860-1917), the Shuvalov Family Palace-Museum (1858–1917), the Restoration Studio of Glavnauka (1920–1929), the Leningrad Institute of the History of Art (1925–1929), and the Moscow Institute of the Theory and History of Arts (1948–1949). These include pictures of architectural monuments and paintings in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other cities of Russia, Central Asia, and Western Europe. Personal collections contain positives and negatives dating from 1861 to the 1980s, including those of N.P. Likhachev, N.Ia. Marr, Ia.I. Smirnov, A.A. Spitsyn, and B.V. Farmakovskii; the archeologists A.A. Bobrinskii, A.I. Boltunova, A.A. Miller, and N.I. Repnikov; the art critics L.I. Matsulevich, G.I. Vzdornov, and N.P. Sychov; andthe architects K.K. Romanov, V.V. Suslov, and others. There are photographs of archeological excavations in Ukraine, the Crimea, the Black Sea littoral, Transcaucasia, Siberia, and Central Asia. There are pictures of works of decorative and applied arts in museums throughout the world: Bosporus tombstones and antique sarcophagi, oriental silver from the Hermitage collection and the British Museum, Egyptian and Byzantine fabrics from Vienna and London museums, and Western European art in pictures of well-known Italian photographers. There is a rich collection ofphotographs of civil, fortress, and church architecture of Russia, Western Europe, Asia, and Africa; a collection on the restoration of churches in Novgorod, Vladimir, Kostroma, and other cities of Russia, Armenia, and Georgia; and even photographs of manuscripts in monasteries of Mount Athos and the Sinai. There are also some films of IIMK archeological research during 1950–1952 in Central Asia, the Volga region, and Siberia. Working conditions: Materials are available in the reading room the same day they are ordered. Reference facilities: There are author and geographic catalogues, card files of unprocessed materials and photographs in need of restoration, and inventory opisi. There are special card catalogues on archeological finds in Olbia and architectural monuments in Georgia and Armenia, which had been published in Izvestiia Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi komissii. The list of fonds available electronically: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc.... Digital copies of some documents also available on the website: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc.... Copy facilities: Facilities are available for photographic copies. |
